Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Ossie Davis was one of the most recognized and influential African American performers and activists of the late...
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977...
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.” In his phenomenal book, Dreams From...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
Chester Himes was an African American writer best known for his series of Harlem detective novels. In 1958...
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all these years, you will know how she comes and goes, how she slips...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
